Alfred von Campe wrote:
> On Mar 9, 2007, at 11:26, James Pearson wrote:
>>> Never used these cards, but the standard CentOS4 kernel has the
>> following config settings:
>>>> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS=4
>> # CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_MANY_PORTS is not set
>>>> This might be your problem ...
>> Hmm, this could definitely be it. I'll look into it further and
> report back. I'd rather not recompile the kernel, but if that is a
> way to get it to work, I'll certainly do it. Maybe the CentOS Plus
> kernel already has support for this enabled. I will check on that as
> well later today.
this also explains why I could never get more than a couple ports
working on a 8 port card I picked up to use as a unix server serial
console controller.
and, yeah, if I can request CentOS Plus kernel consider supporting more
serial ports, chalk me in!